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Victorian People - A Reassessment of Persons and Themes, 1851-67

English · Paperback / Softback

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This text looks at the people, ideas and events between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Second Reform Act of 1867. From "John Arthur Roebuck and the Crimean War," and "Samuel Smiles and the Gospel of Work" to "Thomas Hughes and the Public Schools" and "Benjanmin Disraeli and the Leap in the Dark," Asa Briggs provides an assessment of Victorian achievements; and in doing so conjures up an enviable picture of the progress and independence of the last century.
"For expounding this theme, this interaction of event and personality, Mr. Briggs is abundantly and happily endowed. He is always readable, often amusing, never facetious. He is widely read and widely interested. He has a sound historic judgment, and an unfailing sense for what is significant in the historic sequence and what is merely topical. . . . Above all, he is in sympathy with the age of which he is writing."--"Times Literary Supplement"


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Authors Asa Briggs, Asa (Chancellor of the Open University Briggs
Assisted by Ruari McLean (Illustration)
Publisher University Presses
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 15.04.1975
 
EAN 9780226074887
ISBN 978-0-226-07488-7
No. of pages 324
Dimensions 14 mm x 22 mm x 2 mm
Weight 425 g
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History

History, HISTORY / General, United Kingdom, Great Britain

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